Rock River Valley manufacturing expert Bob Trojan discusses the many facets of manufacturing: technology, education, training, events, people and anything else that touches the general business climate locally, nationally or internationally. He
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Rock River Valley manufacturing expert Bob Trojan discusses the many facets of manufacturing: technology, education, training, events, people and anything else that touches the general business climate locally, nationally or internationally. He hopes to better engage our employers, employees and our future work force to increase their understanding of the world of manufacturing.

“The ability to make things is fundamental to the ability to innovate things over the long term,” says Willy Shih, a Harvard Business School professor and co-author of Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance.

“When you give up making products, you lose a lot of the added value.” In other words, what you make makes you.

For more on the rebound in manufacturing and what it means for jobs and economic growth in the US, check out this week’s TIME magazine cover story, “Made In America.”...